"This is a case of the right benchmark at the right time from the right organization. Anyone involved with server virtualization should benefit from running the benchmark in their own environment or accessing results from the SPEC web site."

Intel has been a proud participant in the "SPEC virtualization subcommittee" charged with developing SPECvirt_sc2010 alongside a wide industry consortium which also included AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Unisys and VMware.